The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

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Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

According to court documents, Riley Jane English, originally identified as Ryan Michael English, is accused of plotting to ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...